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Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note
Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note
Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note
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Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note

Written by Mark Twain

Narrated by Friedrich Frieden

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Dem jungen Buchhalter Henry wird von den Naturgewalten übel mitgespielt als er bei einem Segelausflug aufs offene Meer getrieben wird. Zu seinem Glück entdeckt ihn eine Brigg und nimmt ihn nach London mit, wo ihm das Abenteuer seines Lebens widerfährt. Zwei ältere Millionäre erwählen Henry als Gegenstand einer Wette, indem sie ihm eine Eine-Million-Pfund-Note für einen Monat zu Verfügung stellen, um zu sehen, ob dieser Umstand für den jungen Mann mit Glück oder Pech verbunden ist. Die Wirkung einer solchen Fabel-Summe ist auf Normal-Sterbliche von solcher Wucht, dass Henry innerhalb kürzester Zeit zum „Popstar“ wider Willen mutiert und die Aufmerksamkeit sämtlicher Medien und des Londoner Adels auf sich zieht. Henry lebt auf großem Fuß und verliebt sich in Portia, eine junge Dame aus reichem Hause, aber wird sein aufgebautes Kartenhaus stehenbleiben oder auseinanderfallen?
LanguageDeutsch
Release dateJul 15, 2018
ISBN9783959894449
Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note
Author

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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